Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-15
,upsox UNIVERSITY.
Rev. Harpep an tho Future OF This Crest In-
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JUDsoN UNIVERSITY.
Rev. HArpep an the Future OF This Great IN.
stituttoD.
On Sunday evening sthe First Raptis.
church was crowded to its utmost capacity
as usual. Iastead of a sermon, the pastor.
Rev. w. F. Harper, delivered an education
al address, mAvhich he gave vast amornt
of informatioc in regard to the establish
ment of Judsoa University.
Said the speaker: 81 wish first of all, ID
the name of the great Baptist denominations,
to convey to this community an expression
! of our appreciation and gratitude for the
! magnificent donation you have made to the
/ institution we are about to build. We have
kown many liberal individuals who have
left their fortunes for the endowment OF
great educational institutions, but this
country nor any other, furnishes parallel
! to the muni6cent iberality Of these people,
who after providing building funds and en-
dewments for kalf dozen colleges and
universities, respond with an even greater
enthusiasm and a larger amount to Jundson
University than to any of the institutions
previously established in our midst. 1t is the
establishment of the WORLD young CITY yet
in its teens, after giving a full million of dol
lars to various schools, as if to Guido herself,
voluntarily steps forward with gift esti-
mated by the doners at 5000, and rated
by the Beard of Trustees q. present cash
value Of ssfz ,000:n
II am prSnd OF Wichita tonight; never
prouder, dnring my five years residence iE
tails city than at the present moment"
"And now what is it we promise in return
for your splendid Offering! I speak in the
name of the trustees of Judson University, in
the name OF the 10000 Baptists of Kansas, in
the name of the 100000 Baptists of the
United States. Iprona;se this community en-
institution Of learning that shall do honor to
the large hearted ard progressive spirit of
orr city; an Institution with ample buildings
after the most modern and best approved de-
signs. with equipment of superior excellence
and adaptation.
But beyond all this, it is our purpose to
put more money into brains and books than
into brick. The men and women who will
be invited to professors chairs
will be OF the ripest culture
and most thorough scholarship Al the
head of the institution will be a gentleman
known for his scholarly attainmeuts not only
in this country but in Europe as well, and
while / am not yet at liberty to speak his
name yet assure you it is name known
and honored not only by our own brother
hood but by all denominations in Christen-
DOM
1t is on return for your benevolence, the
bringing to reside in our midst of probably
a score Of educated men and women, teachers
of the highest rank, with the influence of
their families upon our society,
besides the large number of the
best families that will come
to make their homes with us, attracted by
the superior educational advantagesl
"Judson University will be organized upon
a broad, liberal. progressive, christian basis.
We recognize the fact that this is America,
century. That the methods and the scholar
ship Of the seventeenth or eighteenth centu
ries will not meet the demands Of the present.
The American idea and the needs of Ameri-
can citizenship will determine the curricu-
lum and TIE methods of instruction.
1t will be distinctively Christian school,
since the highest culture of the intellect is
attainable only where there is the truest
culture of the heart, based upon a simple
but intelligent faith in God as revealed in
His son, Jesus Christ.
"While the Institution will be under the
control Of the Baptist denomination, none
will fear any narrowness of management or
that any religious restrictions will be placed
upon the students by a denomination that
was active and foremost in the effort which
finally proved successful, to have embodied
in the constitution of the United States that
clause which reads as follows:
Congress shall make no law respecting an
of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof, or abridging the free
dom Of speech Or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble and to petit
ton the government for redress Of grie7-
ances.
This clause was written by Isaac Backus,
the Baptist historian, aud to the principle
here enunciated we are pledged as a people
by the sutferings and death of more than a
million martyrs during the ages"
EPISCOPAL I. CATHEDRII..